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We will have them at Gen Con... but I can't guarantee we won't sell out of our convention allotment by Sunday. *cough*getitthursdaymorning*cough*
Oh, I figured (mostly). But then that got me thinking of what the conversion rate would be... (What do you mean, there's no forex listing for gp?!) (Also reminds me of the time I tried to determined which was richer, my EQ2 character or my WoW character. I ended up looking up how much gold sold for in each game in dollars and used that as my conversion guide.) Moderately off-topic Chris is going to go send out some bills now. /nod
No, no, no...that's assuming that gold is valued at the same rate between the two worlds. What you really need to look at are economic benchmarks. How much is a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk? Look at the trade goods section, compare a pound of flour or iron (PHB 112). That'll get you a much more accurate conversion rate.
Ahhh! I'm being defamed without warning in a thread that I haven't read! What's this now? New products? Announcements? My...perhaps I should find out what this is all about. (Maybe I should have Josh post the product codes. That would tell me exactly what they are, tell those who are really paying attention what category they're in, and just be more teasing to most.)
A french company has developed a car that runs on compressed air....top speed 70 mph....has a 150 mile range...takes 4 hours to refill at home with a small compressor or only a few minutes with an industrial compressor at the cost of 2-3 dollars. Zero emissions. They also have a gas/fuel hybrid that pushes 600 miles on a tank of fuel. Who knows how long it will take to see these advancements become main stream.... or how long it will take before Big Oil slaps some money down on the table and makes the technology go poof.... Do you have a link to this, BsSb?
That is...interesting.
Now, just a tweak here and there....
It is indeed the Military pack. Diamond sent it to us. It's the only version we can order at store level, and funnily enough whoever entered it into the system named it "Patherfinder."Quite a lot of those went missing last year, and we didn't even get paid for some of them; your post has helped us place an inquiry. Thanks much! In fact, I was in the process of writing that inquiry email when Vic had to go and post on this thread, thus making my RSS reader light up, making me check the new feed, and delaying said inquiry. So...I blame Vic. /nod
Hey MarkusTay. Kvantum has it pretty much correct. The philosophy behind what we're doing goes something like this: in order for a game system and its supplemental material to survive, let alone thrive, the core books need to be in print. Since WotC has discontinued the core 3.5 books, Paizo is stepping up to the plate. We're making books that are fully compatible with 3.5, but also better. No, we are not putting any new races or classes in the initial core books. We are tying to keep it very close to the original 3.5 books just for compatibility's sake. With this book, we're keeping the game alive as we know it. However, we have every intention of continuing on with books, much like the splatbooks. There will definitely be new classes and races and such in upcoming expansions. But you'll have to be patient. Those won't be for a few years yet.
vance and MarkusTay touched on some points of this, but I wanted to make some more clarification. From what I've been able to gather from my reading of the GSL, the problem is this: the GSL allows WotC to redefine the SRD at will. The SRD tells you what is protected content (content that you cannot use except by referencing it in the SRD). The protection is also retroactive to already existing products. So...Let's play the possible future scenario game. Let's say that Game Company signs the GSL agreement, waits their two weeks after sending in their agreement, and assumes that WotC has received it. They publish a book that creates two new classes, the Monster Slayer and the Magic User, as well as three new monsters, the Uber Rat, Pointy Thing, and Monstrous Humanoid. The Uber Rat and the Magic User are big hits! The fans love them. Game Company puts out a couple more books that have the Uber Rat and Magic User in them. WotC puts the Uber Rat in the SRD. Game Company is no longer allowed to produce any product that has the Uber Rat in it (anything more than the name of the Uber Rat. They are allowed to reference it, but they cannot stat it or fluff it, even though they created its stats and fluff to begin with). They are also no longer allowed to sell any existing product that has the Uber Rat in it. It is also vaguely possible that WotC could go after them for GSL violation for even having sold a product that has the Uber Rat in it (though that's unlikely and not likely to hold up in any court). Let's say that Game Company manages to recover from that. The instantly stop selling anything that has the Uber Rat in it, including their next two books that are on the presses that they have not yet sold any copies of at all. They go on to develop their wildly popular Magic User even further, and base a couple more books on him. WotC, for reasons unrelated to any of the above and as a good business decision for themselves, terminates Game Company's license. Game Company is no longer able to sell any of the products that they have made under the GSL, nor any products related to their GSL products that they made under the OGL. This is the scenario that people are coming up with when they talk about "references to WotC being able to take your content and reprint it in their books without compensation."
That, right there, is my entire basis for my "coup de grace=instant death" house rule. "I slit his throat." "Ok, he gets a fort save." "...huh?" Yeah. No.
Huh...I was misreading it too. I read it as the only thing keeping you from making it an uber-staff (or ring or amulet) was the caster level limit of crafting it and the amount of gp and time you had available.
:) Well played, sir! )
Sorry graywulfe, I snatched that one up about a year ago. :)
Hey ASEO, I would just like to point out that your tag isn't SUBscriber, it's SUPERscriber. You will also note the cool border around your avatar. We're all about the subtle, here. But for those in the know, that means we know you subscribe to...well, nearly everything.
Lots of depressing things about his energy expenditures. Andrew, are there wood pellet stoves available up there? Would that be feasible for your situation? Back home, my dad installed one when I was a wee lad. Essentially just fit right into the normal fireplace. Each fall, we got a shipment of about a ton of pellets (for Alaska, you would probably want two or three tons) and that easily lasted us through the winter.
Might want to check on them as well. One of my buddies has had a preorder in for a while and it's not even listed on the website as having an expected date now. He's a little annoyed but it is what it is when you order online. Diamond lists Amazon's copies as "Invoice Pending". That should mean that they went out of the Diamond warehouse recently, and are on their way to Amazon now. So they should be getting them fairly soon.
Given that we've seen posts from the CEO herself at 2:30 AM Paizo Time, I've come to expect about anything from Paizo at any time, except maybe between 6 AM and 10 AM Pacific....we have normal working hours? Oh my... ...that's scarily accurate. Do you have cameras in the office or what?
I would recommend the GameMastery Flip-Mat. One side of it is a square grid, the other is hexes. And it's permanent marker erasable! Oooo! (Beside the fact that we make it, I honestly do use mine every session. Granted, I don't use the hex side, but I use the product all the time.)
There is absolutely nothing preventing a monk from having a Magic Fang with Permanency (in fact, I recommend it!). However, you may not apply Craft feats to monk fists because...*drumroll*...they're not masterwork. That's the only barrier. One of the problems that people are seeing is that you can buff just straight + to hit and + damage through Magic Fang and associated spells, but there's no way to replicate the types of things you can get with Craft.
Aha! Now, that is an idea that I can get behind.
Yes, but no one else gets as many attacks as them. That's a pretty neat trick, if you ask me. And, essentially, if you squeak it right, they both dual wield and two-hand for free, as long as they're flurrying. (You can have a staff in hand, use both ends, then use each fist, and throw in a foot for good measure, all with no penalites. Alternately, you can use that kukri in one hand, then a fist, then that kukri again, then headbutt him, then kukri him. Free two hand and free dual wield.) And even if they're not flurrying, they can always use their unarmed as a free off-hand with no penalty. Remember: "This means
Granted, you don't get the extra attack...but that's exactly what flurry is. You're dual wielding your fists with decreasing penalties.
So, a +3 amulet and a +5 weapon have about the same price, within a few thousand gold (a small percentage when you're at those levels). The +3 fists will hit a bit less often, but will hit for more. I think that the amulet versus the weapon is already correctly balanced. IMHO, no new item, enchant, etc is needed. The current one seems to work well. (Again, with the caveat that I have not playtested this. This is just mathematical, and shooting from the hip.)
I don't see that monks need to be able to enchant their fists. The monk has access to enchanted weapons just as anyone else and is fully allowed to use them in his key damage dealing ability. Yes, flurry of blows completely unarmed has flavor. However, is there not just as much flavor with a monk taking his quarterstaff and smacking a baddie five times in a row with it in quick succession? Or taking a set of rapid stabs with a siangham? And with nunchaku...that's awesome flavor, right there. Part of the point of the increasing damage of the unarmed strike is to keep up with the increased damage of enchanted weapons. So, enchanted fists may very well be overpowered for the monk's role when compared to the same attacks with enchanted weapons. So...let's take a lvl 15 monk. He has the choice of using 26d unarmed strike damage or a +5 nunchaku. Let's say that he has the horridly expensive +1 Amulet of Mighty Fists that makes his attacks magical, same as the nunchaku. So, level 15 monk, flurry of blows, unarmed with amulet vs armed with enchanted weapon 2d6+1 x 5 or 1d6+5 x 5.
Note, however, that they are hitting a lot more often with that +5, so they average damage is probably the same or higher than with the unarmed at +1. If the monk is allowed to enchant his fists at the same rate and cost as a weapon, that turns into: 2d6+5 x 5 vs 1d6+5 x 5.
The unarmed attack here is hitting just as often as the enchanted weapon and it's hitting a LOT harder. So...when you let the monk enchant his fists, there seems to be a balance issue. Of course, I haven't had time to playtest that, but that's my feeling. Also, this just explained to me why that amulet costs so much. Guess I get to explain that to my monk player now. :)
I don't recall a time here in Denmark when the price of diesel has ever topped the price of gasoline. It's always been the "benefit" of buying a diesel car that you could get the fuel cheaper, but then the car itself had a higher vehicle excise duty.Today diesel prices passed gas prices... On the drive in today, diesel was $4.72 a gallon with regular gas at $3.85. Diesel has consistently been substantially higher than gas for quite a while now, as far as I recall. I was actually quite happy to see the $3.85, as it had been $3.99 the day before.
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